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Encyclopedia > Eliot House

Eliot House is one of twelve upper-class residential houses at Harvard University. Opened in 1931, the house was named after Charles William Eliot, who served as president of the university for forty years (1869-1909). The architectural style of Eliot House is considered typical of Harvard, with red brick construction and vertical entryways with residential rooms branching directly off stairwells. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Prof. ... This article is about the built environment. ...


The current Masters of Eliot House are Professor Lino Pertile and his wife Anna Bensted. Literary scholar. ...


Famous former residents of the house include poet T.S. Eliot, Leonard Bernstein, Peter Benchley, Ben Bradlee, Archibald Cox, John Harbison, Ted Kaczynski, William Kristol, Richard Leacock, Joseph Lelyveld, Jack Lemmon, Thomas Oliphant, George Plimpton and Jay Rockefeller. Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... Bernstein with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, at the 1974 Charles Ives Centenary Concert in Danbury, Connecticut. ... Peter Benchley (b. ... Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) is the vice president of the Washington Post. ... Archibald Cox, Jr. ... John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938 in Orange, New Jersey) is a composer, best known for his operas and large choral works. ... Theodore Kaczynski Theodore John Kaczynski, Ph. ... William Kristol featured on BBC Newsnight William Bill Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is an American political commentator and columnist. ... Richard Leacock (born July 18, 1921, London) is a film director. ... Joseph Lelyveld was executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001. ... Jack Lemmon Jack Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was a consummate Hollywood actor. ... Thomas Oliphant, correspondent for The Boston Globe since 1968. ... George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer and actor. ... John D. Jay Rockefeller IV John Davison Rockefeller IV (born June 18, 1937) is a member of the prominent United States Rockefeller family who has served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 1985. ...


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  • Eliot House official site

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T. S. Eliot (620 words)
Eliot was born into a prominent Unitarian Saint Louis, Missouri family; the famous Chancellor of Washington University Tom Eliot was a 5th cousin.
Eliot considered Four Quartets to be his masterpiece, as it draws upon his vast knowledge of mysticism and philosophy.
We see the shell of an abandoned house, and Eliot toys with the idea that all these "merely possible" realities are present together, but invisible to us: All the possible ways people might walk across a courtyard add up to a vast dance we can't see; Children who aren't there are hiding in the bushes.
T. S. Eliot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4399 words)
William Greenleaf Eliot, Eliot's grandfather, was a Unitarian minister who moved to St. Louis when it was still on the frontier and was instrumental in founding many of the city's institutions, including Washington University in St. Louis.
Eliot separated from Vivienne in 1933, and in 1938 Vivienne was committed to Northumberland House, a mental hospital north of London where she died in 1947 without ever having been visited by her husband.
Eliot is known for his critical and theoretical writing, particularly for his advocacy of the "objective correlative," the notion that art should not be a personal expression, but should work through objective universal symbols.
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